If you want to move a generation forward, then this is the game to get!
Move over Sims 1, come in Sims 2 and my word, they made a big jump. I was truly stunned at how they made advancements on the game previous title The Sims, it simply was emaculate. The graphics were going to be an improvement of course and so the was the playability but the game was created to allow expansions and these expansions are going to be bigger than before.
The game is easy, fast and strong realibility where bugs are so minimal, you probably wont even notice, heck, there are no bugs. I started off this game with a big family, married couple with four kids, two teenagers and two babies. All hell broke loose, I could not quite believe how difficult it was to manage the babies, especially when they needed changing and sleep as well.
So, I gave up and started again, with a new challenge. This time on my own and believe me, its much better to learn the process from scratch rather than jumping to having families, its good to allow you enough time to decide when to marry and when to have children. Although life seems to short, it would bore people to death but the great thing is, it could last for ages with many generations of families, one after the after, creating your family tree. It may include all the options you have in life but its just about right, not too much to handle and not very little to do, it would be interesting to see how the expansion packs pan out.
Sum it all up, new gameplay engine adds more realism, graphics are a vast improvement looking more real, sound is about the same where you cant do much except maybe replace the gibberish, value for money? No doubt everyone should get this game and sit there spend hours with a challenge because again, the game is everlasting, you never run out of time.